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J. K. P". PINE. Machine for Shaping Cuffs.

No. 224,794. .Patented Feb. 24, I880.

N'FETEIS, PHOTOJJTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D, C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES K. P. PINE, E TROY, NEW YORK.

MACHINE FOR SHAPING CUFFS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,794, dated February 24, 1880. Application filed August 2, 1879.

, represents an end elevation, partlyin section,

parting then the required tension of my improved machine for shaping cuffs; and Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

The object of my invention is to furnish a machine for shaping linen cuffs in a dry state after they have been ironed, so as to dispense with the rolling and handing of the cuffs by hand; and the lnvention consists of a revolving shaping-roll, in combination with an endless apron or belt that is stretched over guiderollers, one at each side of the shaping-roll, and kept taut by a third weighted or springacted lower roller. The cufl'is tightly pressed by the apron against the shapingroll, and shaped 1y the pressure exerted thereon by the roll and apron.

The journals of both guide-rollers D D are laterally adjustable for the purpose of intermeshing with the pinion of the shaping-roll, to whatever position the latter may be adjusted, whether higher or lower, relatively to the side rollers. This adj ustability of the rolls, to which the apron adapt-s itself automatically, admits that any degree of curl or curve may be givento the rolls by simply changing the relative position of the upper rolls and imto the apron by the lower stretching-rolls.

Referring to the drawings, A A represent the supporting-standards of my improved machine for shaping cuffs. A central shapingroll, B, turns in adjustable journal-bearings of the standards, while an endless leather apron or belt, 0, is pressed against the lower part of the roll B by means of guide-rollers D D, which are placed symmetrically to the shaping-roll B, one at each side thereof. The guide-rollers D D turn in side journal-boxes of the standards, and are both geared with a pinion on the end of the shaft of the shapingroll, so that by revolving either one of the guide-rollers by a handcrank or power-belt ously revolved, and thereby the shaping-roll and the endless apron moved at the same speed and in the same direction. The apron is stretched taut over the upper guide-rollers by a third roller, D, which turns in bearings vertically below the shaping-rolL'the lower roller being'acted upon by tightening springs or weight-s D so as to impart the proper tension to the apron.

When a cuff is fed to the shaping-roll and apron it is carried forward between the same and rolled up or shaped by the joint action of the shapingroll and the bite formed in the apron by the guide-rollers and shapingbeing shaped like the other, so that the cuffs can be packed without being rolled up and handed by hand, and thereby a considerable saving of labor and material is obtained.

I am aware that an apron or conveyer stretched over four rollers, one of which is a shaping or molding roller, such as that claimed in the patent of Wm. H. Hart, Jr., dated May 23, 1876, and numbered 177,831, has been used heretofore; but in this case only the side guide-rollers are adjustable, while the remaining rollers are stationary. This prevents the exact adjustment of the rollers and the convenience of adjustment which is the case in my machine.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a cuff-shaping machine, the combination of an endless apron, O, with an adjustable shaping-roll, B, laterally adjustable side guiderollers, D D, and a lower guided and springactuated stretching-roll, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 28th day July, 1879.

JAMES K. P. PINE.

Witnesses W. W. KNIGKERBOCKER, WILLARD W. SEARLE.

the shaping and guide rollers are simultaneroll. The cuff is thereby curled up,-one cuff I 

